A photograph of six young women sitting on the ground in front of Nashville's Parthenon at Centennial Park, West End Avenue at 25th Avenue North, which is an exact replica of Athen's Parthenon. This photograph appeared in the Nashville Banner...

A copy photograph of an 1890's gymnastics class of young female students at Ward's Seminary for Young Ladies in Nashville, Tennessee. The photograph shows Mary Louise and Sadie Warner (later Mrs. William Mallison and Mrs. George Frazier) on the gym...

A photograph of Fanning Orphan School, popularly known as Fanning College. The school was chartered in 1881 and opened in 1884. This non-extant school was located about five miles from downtown Nashville, Tennessee, on Couchville Pike (in the...

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the state Capitol...

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks in each direction from the Tennessee...

1 map; 58 x 75 cm. A plat map of downtown Nashville, Tennessee and the surrounding area, originally published in 1908 by G. M. Hopkins Company, showing the various buildings, landscapes, acreage, and street routes for several blocks. Original...

A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about a new sorority. The caption reads: “Several attractive members of the young school set who recently organized a new junior sorority, Kappa Alpha Phi, are, left to right: Jean Moss, Virginia...

Pictured: A young boy receives a balloon at a circus event held at Centennial Park in 1938. This photo relates to the "Features Show" at Centennial Park on October 26th, 1938, the Al G Barnes and Sells-Floto Combined Circus presenting Ringling...

A postcard of Battle Ground Academy and Gymnasium, circa 1909. Established in 1889, the school was named for its original location on the battle ground of the Civil War Battle of Franklin. The first campus was erected at the corner of Columbia...

A postcard of Belmont College, a collegiate and preparatory school for young ladies located in Nashville, Tennessee. This school for girls was opened in 1890 in the West End neighborhood, at the intersection of Broad and Vauxhall Streets. Some...

An exterior view of the Bill Wilkerson Hearing and Speech Center building in Nashville, Tennessee, located on 19th Avenue. This is the first facility that was constructed circa 1956. It was named for the son of the founder, Dr. Wesley Wilkerson. ...

An exterior view of the Bill Wilkerson Hearing and Speech Center building in Nashville, Tennessee, located on 19th Avenue. This is the first facility that was constructed circa 1956. It was named for the son of the founder, Dr. Wesley Wilkerson. ...

An exterior view of the Bill Wilkerson Hearing and Speech Center building in Nashville, Tennessee, located on 19th Avenue. This is the first facility that was constructed circa 1956. It was named for the son of the founder, Dr. Wesley Wilkerson. ...

A postcard of Boscobel College in Nashville, Tennessee. This school for young ladies consisted of an Anna Shelby Williams' old east Nashville mansion and another large brick building atop a tree-covered hill. The ten acre campus was on Sevier...

Pictured: “Nashville Guardsmen arrive at Camp Forrest: young Nashville soldiers get their first official peek at Camp Forrest, at Tullahoma, shortly before noon today … the guardsmen in line formation a few minutes after their special train arrived...

Pictured: “Privates Arthur Young and Joseph Matheney, both of Cookeville, Battery C., showed the interested spectators how one of the 155-mm howitzers would be loaded and fired in actual combat.” Source: Nashville Banner. A scene from family day...

This photograph, published in the Nashville Banner circa the Yuletide season of 1955, relates to a Nashville family's long and meaningful participation in the Christmas carol program of the Fannie Battle Day Home. The caption from an undated...

A photograph of Central Church of Christ located at 145 Fifth Avenue, Nashville, Tennessee. This church was built in 1925 with a congregation of only 47 members. Membership today now exceeds 1,200. Early works of the church ranged from general...

A monthly newsletter called Contact, created by the Hayes Young Adult Sunday School class at City Road Methodist Church (now City Road Chapel United Methodist Church) located at 601 Gallatin Road South in Madison, Tennessee. The purpose of this...

The Civil Defense tent at the Nashville Fair with the Boy Scouts and young children in line to receive their Civil Defense ID tags. Forms part of Record Group 3, Metro Davidson County Photographer. 1 photograph negative : b & w ; 4 x 5 in.